Skills Quiz 2/13

Before the Civil War, many northerners __________ slavery as a terrible evil but few wanted to go to war because of it.

• abolished

• condemned

• appealed

• expanded

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Once the war began, however, many in the North argued that the time had come to __________ slavery once and for all.

• abolish

• condemn

• appeal

• expand

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Abraham Lincoln’s enemies called him a(n) __________ because he exercised so much power during the war.

• famine

• dictator

• prey

• visual

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CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

Illustrators and photographers accompanied Union troops during some of the war’s bloodiest campaigns, leaving us an important __________ record of the horrors experienced by the soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

• famine

• portable

• visual

• thrifty

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Some African Americans who have __________ from slave families have passed along dramatic stories of their ancestors’ experiences.

• descended

• condemned

• expanded

• appealed

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Without enough water, plant fibers dry out and become __________. If a drought lasts for a long time, plants and crops die.

• famine

• brittle

• thrifty

• prey

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

If too many plants die, insects have no food, and the birds and animals that __________ on insects then lose their food supply, too.

• descend

• prey

• condemn

• appeal

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

The threat of __________ can drive animals great distances in search of food.

• dictator

• famine

• portable

• thrifty

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

If these animals do not __________ their hunting area, they too will starve.

• descend

• abolish

• appeal

• expand

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

It would help our teacher a lot to have a laptop, a __________ computer, that she could take back and forth between school and her home.

• dictator

• brittle

• portable

• famine

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E